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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That afternoon, the mood went from bad to worse. In trying to show that the Lewinsky affair was no Watergate, the White House exhumed some of the most partisan veterans of the 1974 Judiciary Committee. Wayne Owens, a former Democratic member from Utah, said it was the current committee's fault that "they gave to America, to the seven- and eight-year-olds, the knowledge or raised the question of what oral sex is, what telephone sex is and what you can do with a cigar sexually." And Father Robert Drinan, the ultraliberal former member from Massachusetts, predicted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Impeachment: Special Report Impeachment | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...moment in history. Remember the invincible Senator Alfonse D'Amato who kept predicting the discovery of a smoking gun in his Whitewater inquiry? New Yorkers did, and he's outta here. Serial investigator Representative Dan Burton was re-elected, but not before he was nailed for an extramarital affair during which he fathered a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Impeachment: Our Nattering Nabobs | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...closed the classroom door against the political scandal raging outside. Last month, the school board at East Lake High School in Clearwater forbade Linda Manning, who teaches a government class for seniors, from using the Kenneth W.Starr report or Clinton's taped testimony in a discussion of the Lewinsky affair...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Editorial Notebook | 12/16/1998 | See Source »

There is little question that the explicit details of the Clinton-Lewinsky affair are lewd. But is it realistic to believe that avoiding conversation of the subject altogether will in some way "protect" academic integrity...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Editorial Notebook | 12/16/1998 | See Source »

...Awakening and Sophie's Choice because they are considered, like the Starr report and the Clinton tapes, "sexually explicit." Never mind that both books are fascinating character studies and substantial works of literature; if sex is involved, it isn't "appropriate." The same goes for the Clinton-Lewinsky affair: of interest to a government class is whether the president's dishonesty merits his removal from office. It's more about adultery, and party lines and huge egos, than...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Editorial Notebook | 12/16/1998 | See Source »

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